October 4

• Kenya: Govt Steps Up Geothermal Power

  Kenya has inaugurated Africa's biggest geothermal power project in a bid to meet its growing need for electricity and lower its consumption of nonrenewable energy. Read more »

• Southern Africa: Climate Change Threatens Zambezi Dam Projects

  Ambitious multi-billion dollar dam projects along the Zambezi River, carried out by southern African countries seeking to boost hydropower generation, could turn out to be white... Read more »

October 1

• Africa: We Are Causing Our Crazy Weather - So What Now?

  Have you ever been drenched by heavy rain or sweltered in searing heat and wondered whether it might have been exacerbated by climate change? Read more »

September 28

• Central Africa: Organised Crime Behind Up to 90 Percent of Tropical Deforestation - Report

  Organised crime trade worth billions of dollars is responsible for 50 to 90 percent of illegal logging in parts of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and Southeast Asia, with... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Nation Turns to Wind Power to Boost Energy Security

  Ethiopia is venturing into large-scale wind power generation for the first time as it embarks on an ambitious plan to increase its electrical capacity four-fold by 2015 to meet... Read more »

• Africa: Adaptation Committee Finally on the Move

  The Adaptation Committee set up under the U.N. Framework Convention for Climate Change didn't get off to a quick start. Read more »

• Africa: Lack of Jobs Slows Migration to African Cities

  A shortage of job opportunities has slowed migration from rural to urban areas in many parts of Africa over the last two decades, and has even reversed it in a few cases, an expert... Read more »

September 25

• Cameroon: U.S. Firm Under Fire Over Palm Oil Project

  A huge palm oil project in Cameroon's rainforest, led by a U.S.-based agribusiness, Herakles Farms, is stirring up controversy. Environmentalists warn it will destroy precious... Read more »

• Africa: Is Progress On Climate Change an Illusion? [analysis]

  The world is not organised to deal with the climate change problem. Climate change is a global problem, but there is, of course, no global government with the interests of the... Read more »

• Kenya: Nation to Be Hit By Floods, Droughts Due to Extreme Weather - Oxfam

  Northern Kenya risks another humanitarian crisis due to a failure to prepare for predicted heavy rains, one year after a biting drought that pushed millions into hunger, charity... Read more »

September 20

• Zimbabwe: Nation Urged to Lift Ban on Growing Genetically Modified Food

  From poultry products to fish, potatoes to apples, Johnson Moyo, a primary school teacher in Bulawayo, has come to enjoy what many Zimbabweans once considered the finer things in... Read more »

September 19

• East Africa: Saving Lives on Lake Victoria [opinion]

  The Met Office has a long-standing commitment to help developing countries improve their meteorological services. Recently, we supported an effort led by the World Meteorological... Read more »

September 18

• Africa: Gov'ts Urged to Support City Farms

  In the sprawling estate of Gurara on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, women farmers are busy working on a two-hectare plot where they grow fruit and vegetables. Read more »

September 14

• Ethiopia: Changing Rainfall Boosts Number of Ethiopians in Need of Food Aid

  Millions of Ethiopians face severe food shortages as a result of the failure of crucial seasonal rains, a problem increasingly linked to climate change. Read more »

September 13

• Kenya: Farmers Cut Tilling to Raise Yields, Store Carbon

  In the west Kenyan village of Siilila, 27-year-old Geoffrey Wanjala and other members of his farmers' group are trying out a way of working the land that avoids ploughing and... Read more »

September 11

• Africa: Climate Conversations - Enough Progress in Bangkok?

  It's a long way from Bonn to Bangkok - literally and figuratively. Read more »

September 7

• Africa: Climate Conversations - Could Ecuador Play a More Pivotal Role? [opinion]

  In an op-ed in The New York Times, Anita Isaacs suggests that Ecuador's decision to grant WikiLeak's founder, Julian Assange, asylum has little to do with UK-Ecuadorian relations... Read more »

September 6

• Southern Africa: Continent Faces Challenges Getting At Its Newfound Groundwater

  Parched and angry, a crowd of women gathers at the water collection point in Walvis Bay. This dusty fishing town on the Atlantic coast is in water crisis mode, again, after massive... Read more »

September 5

• Malawi: Study Highlights Lack of Climate-Linked Aid to Malawi

  Stranded villagers stand on a bridge partially washed away by flood waters in Chikwawa district, some 70 km (43 miles) south of Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre, January 2008.... Read more »

September 3

• Africa: Small Island States Need Action on Climate Loss and Damage

  International climate change negotiations have long been focused on mitigation and adaptation - that is, on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for the growing... Read more »

• Mali: Nation's Children Go Hungry Amid Drought and Conflict

  Many Malian villages are struggling to cope with health problems made worse by a chronic lack of rain and spreading conflict, with a rising number of children suffering from... Read more »

September 2

• Somalia: Despite Humanitarian Efforts, 2012 Remains Challenging

  While food security has gradually improved since the drought crisis was at its worst in 2011, the severity of that crisis, poor rains and other production constraints mean that... Read more »

August 31

• Mali: Crisis Blights Children's Lives, Say Agencies

  Children in Mali are at growing risk of severe hunger, disease and recruitment by militant groups amid drought-induced food shortages and widening conflict, aid experts are... Read more »

August 29

• Ethiopia: Drought Relief Work 'Still Critical', Says Caritas

  Caritas is launching a new appeal to continue its lifesaving work in drought-stricken areas of Ethiopia. Its programmes will help farmers and herders produce more food, and will... Read more »

• Tanzania: School Meals Opening Doors to Education

  In the drought-prone regions of Tanzania, a lack of food means children often don't have the energy to attend school. WFP is assisting communities with school meals, helping... Read more »